Rape has always been a sensitive subject, but there is a certain kind of rape that is affecting college campuses at an alarming rate. Date rape is rape committed by someone with whom the victim has gone on a date with. The term date rape has been a coined for a while, but the increasing numbers of reported date rapes on college campuses involving students has increased in the past few years. One in four females in college today have been sexually assaulted while in college. As of 2011, fifteen to thirty percent of college women had been victims of acquaintance rape (DeVaron). The definition of date rape has stirred up quite a controversy. A leading cause to this controversy is what voluntary or involuntary consent means to people. Date rape …show more content…
McDonald and Linda M. Kline write about “Perceptions of Appropriate Punishment for Committing Date Rape: Male College Students Recommend Lenient Punishments.” This source discusses a more common or stereotypical attitude for men about date rape. An experiment is done to support the fact that male college students recommend lenient punishments for date rape. The claims made first are that date rape is a crime that happens quite often on college campuses and that from experimentation it seems that college males are willing to force sex on females during dates. Although McDonald and Kline do not say this, it seems to be true on most college campuses. In the study, it is also found that college males have a more rape tolerant attitude, meaning they do not believe date rape is all that bad and they are willing to participate in it. This supports males being the perpetrator in college date rape. Another big issue the article brings up is that most date rape cases are not reported because a lot of woman do not realize it is date rape. Many women do not report date rape cases because they are embarrassed or ashamed or just do not realize it is date rape. Some other women believe date rape happened to them because they did something to deserve it. No woman deserves sexual assault. Date rape is not only subjected to woman, it happens to men too. This study is based on females being the victim only. This …show more content…
Twenty years ago date rape was just a song by Sublime, but today it is a problem running rampant among college campuses. A factor to this conflict is determining what voluntary or involuntary consent is to people. In “Date Rape Fallacies: Can There Be Purely Voluntary acts?” by David R. Carlin Jr. the definition of date rape is discussed and the important distinction between voluntary and involuntary actions. Sure, date rape is a phenomenon but one that has become a major problem. Carlin’s major claim is about the definition of date rape, since many people have many different opinions about it. Most believe date rape is sex without consent that happens on a date. However, studies now show rape advocates are saying that if the victim was influenced or coerced into sex to make their original answer “no” into a “yes” then it is classified as date rape. This new insight to a definition of date rape could explain the increase in date rape cases found on college campuses. Carlin introduces a sub claim about the serious problem of date rape specifically found in colleges. Date rape is especially a growing problem on college campuses, 25 to 50 percent of the undergraduate population of females have been victims of date rape on some campuses.The author takes a stand saying that it is hard to define what date rape is because everyone has a different definition along with a different view: whether if
“Ruling Out Rape” by Lisa Wade, Brian Sweeney, Amelia Seraphia Derr, Michael A. Messner, and Carol Burke discusses the views of five experts about the factors involved in rape. One viewpoint reviews about college campus’ rapes and who are likely to do it. In addition, the viewpoints also includes that officials need to understand what are the factors involved in these rapes in order to create policies to contain sexual assaults. Wade also includes that rape is a culture that is not deemed as real rape as it is claim that women would falsely report being assaulted by a man. However, this also is partly due to campus policy as alcohol is one factor that can contribute to men committing sexual assault.
“Every 21 hours there is a rape on an American College Campus” (Sexual Violence on College Campuses). Sexual assault is something many have heard of and maybe know someone who was sexually assaulted in their lifetime. Sexual assault and sexual violence has been around for as long as our history books can tell us. With multiple cultural changes and new “fads”, as some may say, of college life; sexual assault has become a sort of recurring phenomenon of college lifestyles. This is not a positive thing and in no way should this be labeled as something good for college campuses. Sexual assault on college campuses should be prosecuted as rape can be falsely accused, non-consensual or under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, and is permanently
“College life is an important social domain that provides lifelong experiences and memories for millions of students each year. As these results show, part of this experience involves college women experiencing forcible rape and/or alcohol-or-drug-induced rape” (Fisher, Daigle, & Cullen, 2010, p. 83).
Nicole Johnson*, a 22-year-old senior at an area university looks back at her college experience as graduation approaches, generally happy with how everything turned out, however, a dark cloud still looms over her freshman year when she was raped.
“I felt his hands start to move down towards my shorts as if he was trying to unbutton them or pull them off. I was still crying at this point and felt so scared that I couldn’t move” (Henneberger, 2012). These are words written by a college freshman after she had been raped, but they are true for many others as well. According to the Rape Crisis Center of Medina and Summit Counties, “every two minutes someone in the US is sexually assaulted” (Get the Facts). “Girls ages 16-19 are four times more likely than the than the general population to be victims of sexual assault” (Get the Facts). These women may be described as slut, cheap, or ready for action, rather than victim, sufferer, or survivor. Rape myths encourage these demeaning terms for women and conceal the reality of rape culture. I will describe the pervasiveness of sexual assault on college campuses as well as the systems and procedures in place to address it. Power plays a role in this issue, including the powerful men on campus such as athletes and fraternity members as well as the administrators in power who regulate the punishments and actions that are taken against the perpetrators. The influence of those in power often goes overlooked in our society because it has become so intertwined with our culture.
As seniors in high school are committed to colleges and getting excited for some of the best years of their lives, they are preparing for early classes, late nights and good times. These teens have been looking forward to these years that have seemed to come so fast. Of course they’re getting excited about picking their dream job and looking forward to meeting life long friends that they should be able to trust. No one thinks about or mentions the number of rapes on college campuses. If the first thing colleges mentioned was the reported rapes on their campuses, would that change the minds of kids that have had a certain college in mind? Besides the reported date rapes, what about the estimated sexual assaults that go unreported? Knowing the facts and statistics about colleges and how they handle sexual assault cases would make anyone getting ready for college think twice about how safe they’re being and who they are trusting.
Have you ever been encountered in a circumstance of being raped or knew an individual that was a victim of rape? Every one-hundred and seven seconds an American is sexually assaulted (RAINN). Rape has become a continuous problem causing controversy due to the way colleges cover up or simply hide incidents of rape throughout campus. More college students are also being raped by their own acquaintances rather than random strangers. Students, parents, and politicians question the way schools protect students and how their campuses can become more effective and efficient in preventing further occurrences of rape. Over the past years there has been a series of incidents where rape has been an extreme problem on college campuses in America that have been kept quiet until something traumatic happens. The prevalence of rapes on college campuses is continuing to rise due to lack of security, surveillance and awareness.
Rape is currently on the rise on American college campuses and it is the most common committed crime among college students today. In their time in college 1 out of every 5 women and 1 out of every 71 men will experience some form of sexual harassment as reported by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. These numbers are growing each year and have raised a lot of concern in the administrative level of higher education institutions. In an effort to try and prevent these occurrences universities have begun to implement mandatory curriculum to educate students on the subject and have even begun to hold campus wide events and create clubs to spread awareness and show support because of the repetitive nature of this crime. While it is good
To date, “between 10 to 40 percent of female students [. . .] have been raped while [. . .] up to 60 percent of males students [have] commit[ed] actions that meet the legal definition of sexual assault” (Bretz 19). This percentage demonstrates the ineffectiveness of university policies and signifies a drastic change to procedures is in order if educational institutions want to see improvement. In order to see an effective change, policies must “explicitly define key terms such as “‘consent’, ‘force’ [,]‘incapacity’ and cover [a] range of sexually violent behavior” (Gunraj 9). Furthermore, since the age of fourteen 58.7% of females “ha[ve] experienced one or more forms of victimization[. . .] 35.0% ha[ve] experienced at least one completed or attempted rape and 23.5% ha[ve] been raped” (Senn et. al. Results). First-year female students are not prepared for the perpetrators they will face on campus, and as a result, are more vulnerable to sexual violence. Universities need to develop effective policies and procedures to not only prepare women for the challenges they may face but to reduce the overall number of sexual assaults and make school a safer environment for
One of the most common misconceptions about rape is that is it committed by strangers most of the time. However, this is not the case. Date rape is an epidemic affecting tens of thousands of people across the world at staggering rates. The rape stereotype in our culture today is a jumping out of the shadows type of rape. Most people think that when someone is raped either their house is broken into and they are attacked, they are kidnapped, or something along those lines. Actually, 84% of women know their attacker (Hammond). This can become problematic for our society because victims are looking out for an attack that most likely will not take place, while ignoring assaults that are far more likely.
Date rape is an evident problem on college campuses. Statistics state that one in four women will be sexually assaulted on a college campus, and between 15 and 30 percent of college women have been victims of sexual assault (DeVaron, 2011). Sending young women out to an environment with those statistics is startling. There are different risk factors involved for college students: hispanic women were found more likely, the number of years in college, and number of dating partners were all associated with assault (Fisher, Krebs, Warner, Lindquist, & Martin, 2014). Women have also been found to be at higher risk than men.
According to a statement addressing the sexual victimization of college women The Crime and Victimization in America states that, “ One out of four women will be sexually assaulted on a college campus.” This disturbing fact has not minimized throughout the years, instead it is continuing to worsen throughout college campuses. Sexual assault is not an act to be taken lightly. Society must stop pinpointing the individuals who commit these crimes one by one, but rather look at the problem as a whole and begin to understand the main cause of sexual assault and possible methods to reduce these acts of sexual coercion.
When people think about rape, they usually think of a stranger with a knife hiding in the bushes. He waits for a woman to walk by and then attacks. But that is not the only kind of rape. The majority of victims are raped by individuals they know or acquaintances. This rape is known as “acquaintance rape” or “date rape.” Eighty percent of all rapes are, in fact, acquaintance rapes. This kind of rape happens when a man and a woman go out on a date together. The man forces the woman to have sex with him when she does not want to. Also called simple rape, which differs from real rape, because real rape involves weapons, violence and attackers. This kind of rape is recognized as rape in courtrooms, where simple rape is dismissed as not real rape and it is more common that the offender will be found not guilty.
Too many times, we meet people who are rich and successful, yet are not happy. It's very easy to get lost in the midst of success without ever knowing the feeling of true satisfaction and fulfilment. When this happens, somehow success is not as satisfying as it should be, and all the perks that come with success are not as enjoyable as you would prefer it. It is not good to let this dissatisfaction go on.
The World Health Organization defines sexual violence as: “…any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, unwanted sexual comments or advances, or acts to traffic or other wise directed, against a person’s sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting, including but not limited to home and work (WHO, 2001).” From this definition it is evident that sexual violence encompasses a variety of situations. Sexual violence includes rape, incest, sexual harassment, abuse, unwanted sexual touching, non-consensual sexual actions, and even physical or emotional coercion. The sad reality is that some people might have not even have known a particular situation was sexual violence, which makes this